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- Advanced ARJ Password Recovery 2.0
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- (c) 2000 Elcom Ltd (A.Malyshev, I.Golubev)
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- Contents
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- Introduction
- Requirements
- Known bugs and limitations
- Where to get the latest version
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- Introduction
- ------------
-
- This program (Advanced ARJ Password Recovery, or simply AAPR)
- can be used to recover the lost passwords for a ARJ and WinArj
- archives. At the moment, there is no known method to extract
- the password from the compressed file, so the only available
- methods are "brute force", dictionary-based and known-plaintext
- attacks.
-
- Well, there are a lot of programs like this around, but
- all of them have their own "pros" and "cons". Here is a brief
- list of AAPR's advantages:
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- - The program has a convenient user interface
- - The program is very fast: about two million passwords per
- second (on Pentium II)
- - Self-extracting archives are supported
- - The program is customizable: you can set the password length
- (or length range), the character set to be used to generate
- the passwords, and a couple of other options
- - You can select the custom character set for brute-force attack
- (non-English characters are supported)
- - Dictionary-based attack is available
- - The "brute-force with mask" attack is available
- - The maximum password length is not limited (in registered
- version)
- - Very fast known-plaintext attack is available
- - No special virtual memory requirements
- - You can interrupt the program at any time, and start from the
- same point later
- - The program can work in the background, using the CPU only
- when it is in idle state
-
- The next versions will have much more useful features, of
- course.
-
-
- Requirements
- ------------
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- - Windows 95 (any version), Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 or
- Windows 2000 running on Pentium CPU
- - 4 megabytes of RAM
- - about 1 megabyte of hard disk space
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- Known bugs and limitations
- --------------------------
-
- - The program might not work with archives created with ARJ
- newer than version 2.60.
- - When files in archive are "stored" (ARJ method 0) or packed
- with method 4, the performance might be lower than expected,
- because unpacking the whole file is required.
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- Where to get the latest version
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-
- The latest version of AAPR is always available from our web page
- at http://www.elcomsoft.com/aapr.html. Other password recovery
- products (for ZIP and RAR archives, Microsoft Office documents
- (all versions), VBA code, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Money and
- Lotus SmartSuite (Organizer, 1-2-3, WordPro and Approach) are
- available from our server at:
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- http://www.elcomsoft.com/prs.html
-
- If you'd like to receive notifications about new releases of
- password recovery software, please subscribe to our mailing list;
- mailing list archive and subscription information is available at:
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- http://prsoftware.listbot.com
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